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I know this isn’t Mobile Device Manager specific but I thought it was something you’d appreciate hearing about nonetheless. The Solution Accelerator team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning
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I asked the FixIt team for this a while back and they have delivered. Now if you ever run into the symptoms below the chances are good we can automatically fix it with just a few clicks of the mouse: The Symptoms: When you use the fully qualified
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Here’s a problem which we’ve seen a couple of times which can be caused by bad packages in software distribution. This problem can arise when Software Distribution is being used, and you notice that devices don’t seem to be getting packages, nor getting
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You’ve heard about it and read about and now you’ll soon have the chance to try it out yourself. The System Center Online Desktop Manager beta is coming soon: The System Center Online team has been working hard in preparation for its next beta release
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The System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 Security Configuration Wizard (SCW) includes three templates that you can apply to MDM servers to help enhance security by disabling functionality that is not required for the servers. The SCW is an attack-surface
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Just an FYI that we published a new Knowledge Base article for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 last week. I mentioned this issue here last week but we now have an official KB documenting it as well: KB974680 - The Group Policy setting "Code
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Just an FYI that we published a new Knowledge Base article for System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 last week. I mentioned this issue here last week but we now have an official KB documenting it as well: KB974606 - The Group Policy setting "Code
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When you disable the Group Policy setting Code Word by using Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manager (MDM) 2008 Group Policy management functionality, some Windows Mobile 6.1 mobile devices may continue to use the previously set code word. This
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When you disable the Group Policy setting Code word frequency by using Microsoft System Center Mobile Device Manger (MDM) 2008 Group Policy management functionality, some Windows Mobile 6.1 mobile devices may continue to ask the user to enter a code word
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I was looking around Facebook the other day and thought “Wow, there sure are a lot of companies out here, sharing information and whatnot” and then I thought hey, why not me too. After all, if there’s another avenue that can be opened up that might
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We’ve recently been asked a few questions about the SCMDM roadmap and future versions. Here’s a quick overview of what is to come. At the recent MMS and Tech Ed US 2009 conferences, the System Center Configuration Manager team revealed some important
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As you may know, with the Service Pack 1 release of SCMDM we introduced support for virtualization of our server roles. This allows you to run the Windows Server 2003 x64 guest OS in a Hyper-V environment. We wanted to clarify that this applies to the
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Here’s an interesting issue that a one of our top Support Escalation engineers by the name of James Geater ran into a while back. It can be a tricky one to troubleshoot as the cause of the issue isn’t obvious so I thought it would be worth a quick
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We are happy to announce that we now support System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 SP1 with a Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition Certificate Authority. We’ll be documenting this on TechNet in the near future but we wanted to let you all know
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Here’s another webcast on System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 in case you haven’t already seen it. This one is about an hour and a half long and discusses how to successfully (and cost effectively!) implement this product in the enterprise.
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